Paul de Guzman

2013 the people are the city, CBC Plaza, Vancouver

where: CBC Broadcast Plaza at 700 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, Canada | launch time: Noon to 1pm on Wednesday, April 17th.
The exhibition will be up until Fall 2013.

On behalf of the Vancouver Heritage Foundation and the sponsors for this project, CBC and JJ Bean Coffee Roasters, please join us for the launch of my newly commissioned outdoor art project.

The WALL, located at the CBC Vancouver Broadcast Centre Plaza at 700 Hamilton Street, is a Vancouver Heritage Foundation public art initiative. Made possible through a partnership between VHF, JJ Bean Coffee Roasters and the CBC, the WALL features a new artist every year. All exhibits are an artist’s interpretation of the theme “Vancouver’s built environment”.

the people are the city
the people are the city
the people are the city, a new large-scale, outdoor, image-and-text-based work by Paul de Guzman, relies on a vernacular experience of architecture and is composed of two distinct elements: an archival image and a text component, both retrieved from the CBC’s Vancouver archives. The image is from the CBC Archive’s collection of photographs by Franz Lindner and shows an instructor with his students at the Vancouver Vocational Institute in 1963. The text "The people are the city" was a headline taken from a copy of the CBC Times, a weekly programming guide published during the 1960's. "The people are the city" was the title of a radio program covering a winter conference which aired on January 28, 1966 about the practice of local democracy and was a joint venture between the CBC and the Canadian Institute on Public Affairs.

For a more thorough description of the exhibit, please visit ,,, http://pauldeguzman.com/pages/the-people-are-the-city

2011

MAA - Museum for the Administration of Aesthetics presents Digger
ephemera assembled by Paul de Guzman

venue: Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium
vernissage: Sunday, March 20, 2011 from 15:00 to 18:00
Paul de Guzman will be in attendance during the vernissage and will be present in the gallery on Friday, April 8 to Sunday, April 10, 2011.
The exhibition continues until April 24, 2011.

Museum for the Administration of Aesthetics, or MAA, under the frenzied auspices of it sdirector, Paul de Guzman, and in conjunction with Galerie Transit, launches Digger in the Flemish city of Mechelen, Belgium. Digger is an installation that proposes to evaluate the pedagogical potential of the act of removal or excision through an historical and archaeological context. Taking its cue from architectural excavations of ruins and abandoned construction sites, the research was initiated during a recent three month artistic residency in 2010 at Stichting Duende in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This exhibition of ephemeral works employs notions of conceptual craft, situational aesthetics and the archive. Using various artistic strategies involving a projection, mixed media altered bookworks, interactive mobile structures and a limited edition self-published artist book, the ephemera cumulatively works toward the involvement of language and architecture as experiential models within social dynamics.
Digger recognizes the role of education and pedagogy as strategies in attempting to connect
architecture with the vernacular experience of physical and virtual space.

Born in Manila, The Philippines where he studied Engineering, Paul de Guzman immigrated to Canada in 1986 and currently lives and works in Vancouver. He founded MAA – Museum for the Administration of Aesthetics in 2009 and currently acts as its Director. MAA is a service oriented virtual entity, an architectural avatar that collaborates with other artistic organizations in collecting and disseminating information about contemporary issues involving art and related media. De Guzman’s self-education in art was achieved through reading art and architecture texts. His work has been shown extensively in Canada, and exhibited internationally in New York at apexart and Kinz + Tillou Fine Art, in San Francisco at Hosfelt Gallery, in Paris at Galerie Dominique Fiat, and at No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern in London. This is de Guzman’s second collaboration with Galerie Transit in Mechelen, Belgium.